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During a successful mission of more than 6½ years, from August 1975 until April 1982, the ESA COS-B satellite (Scarsi et al. 1977) has observed the sky in gamma rays of energy greater than 50 MeV. The Milky Way is completely covered (Mayer-Hasselwander et al. 1982) and at all longitudes the survey is extended to medium latitude regions at |b|≲20° or at some selected regions even further.
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Bloemen, J.B.G.M. (1983). Gamma Radiation as a Tracer of the Local Interstellar Gas. In: Shuter, W.L.H. (eds) Kinematics, Dynamics and Structure of the Milky Way. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 100. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7060-1_6
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